Shipping-crate.



r.. SIMON. SHIPPING GBATE. AYYLIOATIOH FILED MAB.. 7, 1910.

ment@ July 5, 1910.

2 SHEETS-SHBET 1.

I. SIMON.

SHIPPING CRATE. APrLIoATI'w FILED MAR. '1., 1910.

Patented July 5, 1910.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

FRANK SIMON, E' CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

' SHIPPING-CRATE.

Specicatien of Letters Patent.

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Application filed March 7, 1910. 'Serial No. 547,932.

To all'whom 'it may concern:

-e 1t known that- I, FRANK zen of the United States, residing at Chi SIMON, a citi-v cago, in the county of Cook and State ofy Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in ShlppingCrates, of

' which the following is a specification;A

l'lhis invention relates to improvements in knoekdown shipping crates and more particularly to those designed especially for shipping p'oultry. lts object is the production of a device of the kind that whenset up or assembled will accommodate a number of fowls comfortably and when' empty clan be folded into very small space.

Another object is cheapness of manufacture. p

lith the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described in the following specif lication, pointed out in the claim and illustrated 1n the accompanying drawings, in wlnch Figure 1 is a top plan of the crate. Fig.

y 2 is a side elevation. FigfB is an end elevation. Fig. 4 is a plan of the device folded and inv readiness for the return tri empty. Fig. 5 is,an end elevation of the fol ed crate. Fig. (3 is a detail of an upper corner of the device taken fron/i Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is another detail.

Like reference characters indicate c orre spending parts throughout the several views. Q represents the lloor of the crate formed ol two similar sections hinged together at 3 in a manner to pcrnnt the sections to fold longitudinally upon each other. The rela tivelyremote lateral edges of either fioor section are turned upward approximately at right angles toithe main floor section as at 4 and the two side. pieces 5 of the crate are hinged thereto as at 6 in a manner to permit either side piece to fold inwardly. Top pieces 7 and 8 are hinged to side pieces 5 by inside hinges in a manner to permit said top pieces to fold inwardly upon said side pieces. rl`he top piece 7 has a door S) made therein and hinged at l0 which door may be4 opened to lill or empty the crate. End pieces 1.1v and 12 are provided at either end otl the crate and are hinged to the tloor as at 13 in a manner to permit'thein to fehl inwardly and upon the Hoor.

A14 isa bracket with an eye therein arranged at either upper corner of one of the an eye and the opposite extremity threaded;-

this rod is forn'ied in two sections hinged together' as at 18'." The rod 17 is adapted for insertionin bracket 14 and'through eyelets 1G when the threaded extremity is screwed through Ithe eye 15 when the cate is assembled.

19 is a screw clasp on one of the side pieces 5 and 20 is a hook on one lateral extremity of a floor section and 21 an eye on the remote lateral extremity of the other floor section.

Figs. 1, 2 and 3 showthe crate assembled and Fig. 4 shows it knocked down. `When the crate is assembled and it is desired to fold it the bars 17 are drawn out of the threaded eye 15 and out ofthe e elets 16, the end pieces 11 and 12 are then fo ded in upon the floor, the floor sections are vfolded outward longitudinallyA upon each other, the top pieces 7 and 8 are folded in upon the side pieces 5 andthese last named pieces are folded down upon the end pieces 11 and 12. The threaded extremity of rod'17 isnow again inserted in screw eye 15 which is again in alinement with eye in bracket 14 as shown in. Fig. 5, the rod 17 is folded on its hinge 18 until in the position shown in Fig. 6 when the section of the rod adjacent side piece 5 is used as a handle to screw t-he other section In a crate, a floor adapted to fold lonUitudinally upon itself and having it-s re a- `tively remote lateral edges upturned and provided with a hook and eye as shown, `end pieces provided with' eyelets hinged to the lloor and foldable inwardly thereupon, side piecesprovided with brackets having eyes `therein `in alinement with each other and with the aforesaid eyelets hinged to the aforesaid upturned floor edges, one of said side pieces being provided with a screw clasp, top pieces hinged to said side pieces Q ses, 331

'and foldable inwardly thereupon, the afore'l my own. I have helto said side peces bein' foldabla u ol1 the in the prsence of t a Qresaid en pieces an ahin e ro a apted for insertion in the aforeszd eyelets and. FRANK SIMON' 5 bracket eyes and under the aforesaid screw Witnesses:

clasp. STONE Szano,

In testimony that I claim tllie foregoing asf' W. W. Y'Ea'ms.

aiiixed` my signature o subscribing witnesses. l. 

